US 10,246,054 B2 · Method and device for enabling access to a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, in particular for conveying a consignment of goods

Abstract

The present disclosure is based on a device and on a method for enabling access to a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, wherein the motor vehicle has at least one sensor which senses the surroundings and and/or the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle. The core of the present disclosure is that the enabling of access which occurs in response to an enabling request originating from outside the motor vehicle takes place at least as a function of the sensing by the sensor. The disclosure advantageously provides secure access to the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A motor vehicle comprising:

at least one sensor configured to detecting a surroundings of the motor vehicle;
a compartment;
and
an authorization device operatively connected to the at least one sensor and the compartment, the authorization device being configured to:
receive an authorization request transmitted from an automated drone that is outside the motor vehicle;
perform a successful authorization to the compartment in response to the request only in response to detecting that no humans are within a predetermined radius of the motor vehicle based on data corresponding to the surroundings of the motor vehicle received from the at least one sensor;
and
open the compartment to receive a consignment of goods from the automated drone only in response to the successful authorization.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/575,825Filed 11 May 2016

Priority

DE 10 2015 209 48222 May 2015

Published

US 2018/0148016 A131 May 2018

Granted

2 Apr 2019

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

B60R 25/241
Using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user: whereby access privileges are related to the identifiers
B60R 25/01
Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles: operating on vehicle systems or fittings, e.g. on doors,…
G06Q 10/0832
Shipping: special goods or special handling procedures, e.g. handling of hazardous or fragile goods
B64U 2101/64
For transporting passengers; for transporting goods other than weapons: for parcel delivery or retrieval

Method and device for enabling access to a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, in particular for conveying a consignment of goods

Life of this patent

Method and device for enabling access to a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, in particular for conveying a consignment of goods

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims7